Matt Rivers says your free pick winner for Tuesday is on the Celtics +1.5 against Miami (official betting preview).
While Matt is keeping any eye on Cincinnati weather, Ohio, Louisville weather conditions as well via WCPO, WHIO, and Wave 3, he is also tracking week 8 NFL injuries.
When all is said and done Lebron, D-Wade, Bosh and the Heat are the superior overall team. Miami is the clear-cut best team in the entire NBA as the Vegas team win total of around 64 ½ shows. But the Celtics are no pushover and if you look at Doc Rivers’ squad over the last few seasons you will see a team that at times plays unmotivated but when they have that motivation they are as good as any team around.
Boston won the championship three years ago, went further than expected a two years ago being a game away from another championship in the tough seven game loss to Orlando without their leader in Kevin Garnett and last season were blah in the regular season only to go ballistic in the playoffs and shock the world in getting back to the championship. What does all of this mean when it comes to game one of this season? A lot!
The C’s are going to be extremely jacked up in this thing at the Boston Garden treating it like a playoff game against the new look Heat. The atmosphere is going to be absolutely electric to try and shove it up LeBron’s butt and without Wade being able to play all that much of late I don’t see the chemistry really being there. Throw in the injury to Mike Miller and a hard fought preseason game last week in Atlanta where King James scored 38 and the team still lost and I just see Erik Spoelstra’s team falling a little short and not getting the job done today.
Boston doesn’t have their beast in the middle in Kendrick Perkins but they did pick up Shaq and Jermaine O’Neal and should be all right here for sure against a Miami team that doesn’t really have a dominant post game themselves. The Heat’s big three will be great and get their points but it’s not like Rondo, Pierce, Garnett, Allen and the C’s haven’t been there and done that and at home today without a doubt could give Miami a rare loss in an emotional scene in Beantown.
This should be one of the better games of the entire season and in the end the home green should get it done.
The pick: Miami +1.5 at Bodog
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